Vanessa Barchfield

Media Specialist at the Center for Biological Diversity.

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Last week I checked a handful of trail cameras in a few Sky Islands in southern Arizona & was dumbfounded to find a beautiful wild ocelot on one of them.

For the safety of this endangered & elegant cat I won’t be disclosing the location at this time.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: we're suing the @ForestService for their reckless plan to build new roads through 3 sensitive canyons in the Chiricahua Mts.

This area has been home to one of the only jaguars in the U.S. It's the last place we should allowing more disturbances.https://t.co/QyW9WPxvou

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

https://t.co/lBdyXyDYlq

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@CenterForBioDiv, Indigenous, youth, frontline and enviro groups' lawsuit against New Mexico for failing to uphold its constitutional duty to protect residents from fossil fuel pollution will go to trial after a judge rejected NM and industry's attempt to get the case dismissed.

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

Breaking: Tohono O’odham students, elders and members of other Tribes have given a name to Arizona’s newest wild jaguar: O:ṣhad Ñu:kudam (Jaguar Protector. Listen to why Kii’yaa’nii thinks it’s important to protect O:ṣhad and all jaguars…

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

“A well written Endangered Species Act petition should bring the reader to tears.”

My @CenterForBioDiv colleague @bitterwaterblue featured in @NewYorker’s #talkofthetown. https://t.co/0vmlSaXoVs

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

If @GovernorHobbs is serious about protecting groundwater, she must work to close the mining loophole in Arizona.

Mines in AZ are currently exempt from groundwater regulation. They can pump unlimited amounts without paying the state a dime.

My op-ed👇
https://t.co/mbNY7yFQZL

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

The lone dem, @AnnaTovarAZ, isn't seeking a 2nd term (she says the commission needs a shake up & renewed focus on actually serving the people of AZ). Given the level of climate change denial in the @AZGOP, that shakeup will come if dems take all three seats up for grabs.

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

Republican members of the Arizona Corporation Commission are trying to repeal the state's (already not sufficient) renewable-energy rules. Voters have a chance to replace two of them (@LeaPeterson & @joconnoraz) this November. Time for climate leadership.
https://t.co/VxvGHYfJZQ

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

An intense goose situation and its (spoiler alert) happy ending:

[Douglas Main @Douglas_Main]

The unlikely story of a goose couple that has returned for years to lay eggs at Nat Geo’s headquarters—and the arduous journey the birds must make.

Thrilled this has become one of the best-performing NG social videos ever.

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@Douglas_Main So sorry Doug. I'll miss your stories - though sounds like I wont have to miss them for too long. Good luck and the next place will be lucky to have you. All the best from sweltering Tucson.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: @CenterForBioDiv & our allies are suing to stop two reckless mineral exploration projects in the heart of jaguar, ocelot & Mexican spotted owl habitat in southern Arizona's rugged Patagonia Mountains.
https://t.co/E0n9sFbPyF

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@NBarrazaSALC @TeresaBravo96 @hvchiordi Thank you Nicole, looking forward!

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@shaq_mccoy @TucsonStar Better to ask @LeeEntNews 💔

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@KBSX915 @MurphyWoodhouse Congratulations Murph! Excited for you/sad for the airwaves of the southwest.

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@journalism_jobs @comminternships …salary up to 25k gbp…a year?! That’s effed.

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@astridgalvan Devastating.

[Vanessa Barchfield @Vbarchfield]

@andrewboxford @andrewboxford does that mean abortion is now illegal in Arizona until tomorrow when the legislature/ducey’s 15-week ban takes effect? Or does this supersede the 15-week ban?